{"product_id":"the-legacy-of-wa-criswell-jim-towns-9781622881703","title":"The Legacy of W.A. Criswell","description":"W. A. Criswell envisioned the emergence of a new conservatism that would become the new religious right. In his most famous and revealing sermons, including \"Segregation and Society\" (1956) and \"The Church of the Open Door\" (1968), Criswell proclaimed that opposition to evangelical truths sprang from two sources: Darwin's \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e and the vast inroads of German higher criticism and rationalism that explained away the miracles of the bible and reduced them to humanistic fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Towns's book examines selected speeches from 1956 to 2002, revisiting events that provoked the rhetorical situations of the era and exploring speaker-leader propositions and perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Criswell's leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention was dynamic and unifying, and his paradigm for social responsibility in his preaching, speaking and writing can best be entailed in the following encapsulation: \"Be anchored to the book and geared to the times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Towns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622881702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622881703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.46d","brand":"Jim Towns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067852714239,"sku":"9781622881703","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f4de41a-471d-4b34-a6d1-2817e1b5fec7.jpg?v=1685415703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-legacy-of-wa-criswell-jim-towns-9781622881703","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}